Type-bar guide for type-writers or like machines.



PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

O. DE L. RIGE. TYPE BAR GUIDE FOR TYPE WRITERS 0R LIKE MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR, 13, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 4, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES DE LOS RICE, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO UNDERWOODTYPEWRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A COR- PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-BAR GUIDE FOR TYPE-WRITERS OR LIKE MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 735,152, dated August 4,1903.

Application filed March 13, 1903. Serial No. 147,577. (No model) To allwhom it Huey concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES DE Los RICE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Hartford, county of Hartford, and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inType-Bar Guides for Type-VVriters or Like Machines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to type-writers and like machines, and particularlyto the means employed for guiding the type-bar adjacent to theprintingpoint, and has for its object to provide a simple constructionof the aboveindicated character which will be capable of readyadjustment, so that the type-bars may be correctly guided to theprinting-point.

I so construct my improved guide that the adjustment may be made whenthe machine is first assembled and may be corrected, if necessary, atany time during the life of the machine.

One form of my invention will now be described with reference to theaccompanying drawings, and the novel features will then be pointed outin the appended claims.

Figure l is a front elevation of the type-barcarrying segment of atype-writing machine, together with my improved type-bar guide attachedthereto. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are sectional views taken on the lines 2 2, 33, and 4c 4, respectively, of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 isa crosssection on line 55 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a detail face view of a nut employed in myinvention, and Fig. 7 isa plan of the guide and segment.

A indicates the segment, on which the typebars are fulcru med in anyapproved manner.

B is the type-bar guide, which is located at the top edge of the segmentA and which at its upper end is formed with the forwardlyprojecting armsB, the adjacent surfaces of which flare forwardly, so as to form a guidefor the type-bar toward the printing-point. It will be understood thatthe printing-point is in the central plane indicated by the line 3 3 inFig. 1. The arms B project from the upper ends of fork members B whichare separated from each other by a vertical slit B preferably providedat its lower end and also, if desired, near its upper end withenlargements B. By this construction the fork members B are givenelasticity, so that they will have a tendency to move toward each other.The fork members B and guide members B, which are thus movabletransversely in relation to each other, may be spread apart by means ofan expanding-screw C, which engages both members and has a conical head0, so that as the screw is screwed in the fork members B will be movedfarther apart. To lock the fork members in their adjusted position andto assist the inward movement produced by their resiliency, I provide ascrew D, which connects the fork members B transversely, as shown bestin Fig. 5. It will be understoood that this conmeeting-screw D extendsacross the slot B While the expanding-screw C extends into the saidslot.

7 The means so far described enable the width of the slot B or, in otherwords, the distance between the guide-arms B to be adjusted. In order toenable the guide-arms B to be leveled, I provide the followingarrangement: The body B of the guide has at a distance below thevertical slot B two horizontal slots B provided at their inner ends withenlargement B Into these slots are adapted to fit screws E, havingconical heads E and also lugs F,projected from nuts F, into which thesaid screws E are adapted to screw. The opposing surfaces of the lugsare beveled to correspond to the conical face of the screw-head. Thebody of the nut is received within a slot or recess A of the segment- A.It will be understood that the lugs F prevent the nuts Ffrom turningrelatively to the guide-body B. Thus when the screw E is turned it willhave a tendency to crowd the upper wall of the slot B upward, since thelower portion of the body B is rigidly secured to the segment A, as byscrews G.

The slots B give a resiliency'to the portions B located above them, andthese portions practically form movable arms capable of a movement whichmay be described as approximately a pivotal movement the center of whichis adjacent to the intersection of the lines 3 3 and at 4 in Fig. 1.

Now supposing the left-hand screw E is released and the right-hand screwE is tightened,the entire portion of the-guide which is above the slotsB will be swung in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1, thus changingthe position of the top line of the guide relatively to a horizontalplane. It will therefore be obvious that by releasing one of the screwsE and tightening the other the type bar guide may be leveled, so thatthe slot B will be exactly vertical and the upper faces of the arms Bexactly horizontal.

machine apart.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A type-bar guide comprising two guide members movable toward and fromeach other, an expanding-screw having a flaring portion adapted toengage both of said members, and another screw connecting said memberstransversely.

2. A type-bar guide comprising two resilient guide members movabletoward and from each other, and having a tendency to move toward eachother, and an expanding-screw arranged between said members and engagingboth of them.

3. A type-bar guide comprising two resilient guide members having atendency to move toward each other, an expanding-screw arranged betweensaid guide members and adapted to spread them apart, and another screwconnecting said guide members transversely and adapted to hold them intheir adjusted position.

4. A type-bar guide comprising guide members movable toward and fromeach other, an adjusting-screw located between said members andcontrolling the distance between them, and means for holding the guidemembers in their adjusted position.

5. A type-bar guide comprising resilient guide members,-anexpanding-screw located between said members and arranged to spread themapart against their resiliency, and another screw connecting saidmembers transversely to hold them in their adjusted position.

6. Atype-barguidecomprisingastationary guide-body, a guide propermovably connected therewith, and adjusting means for rigidly connectingsaid guide-body with the guide proper, so that normally the guide properwill. be stationary and rigid with the guide-body.

7. A type-bar guide comprising a stationary body portion and a guideportion proper movablyconnected with said body portion to swing so as toallow the guide proper to be leveled.

8. A type-bar guide comprising a stationary body portion, a guideportion movably connected with said body portion, and expanding-screwsarranged between said portions to adjust the guide portion relatively tothe body portion.

9. Atype-bar guide comprisingastationary body portion, a guide portionconnected with said body portion and having arms extending at a slightdistance from adjacent edges of the body portion, forming slotstherewith, and adj usting-screws arranged in said slots.

10. A type-bar guide provided with a vertical slot, whereby two adjacentresilient guide members are formed, and also provided with horizontalslots whereby a body portion is separated from a guide portionyieldingly connected with said body portion, and means arranged in thesaid slots for adjusting the distance between the guide members, and foradjusting the guide portion relatively to the body portion.

11. A type-bar guide having two members movable toward and from eachother and separated by a slot, a nut provided with lugs projecting intosaid slot to prevent the not from turning, and an expanding-screwfitting into said nut and in engagement with said members to adjust thedistance between them.

12. The combination with the type-bar segment of a type-writing machine,or the like, said segment having recesses adjacent to theprinting-point, of a type-bar guide having a body portion secured to thesegment below said recesses, and a guide portion arranged above saidbody portion and separated therefrom by horizontal slots, nuts locatedin said recesses of the segment and provided with lugs projecting intosaid slots, and expanding-screws arranged to fit the said nuts and toengage the walls of said slots to adjust the guide portion relatively tothe body portion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

CHARLES DE LOS RICE. Witnessesz' WILLIAM FREDERICK HELMOND, EDWARDPARKER STORY.

